At the Beginning of Time

Richard is a two-time CSA (Canadian Screen Award) nominee for Best Ensemble in a Comedy, for the hit CBC series The Tournament. He won the award for Best Actor at Macabre Faire ’21 Film Fest and Yes! Let’s Make a Movie Film Fest 2021 for his moving portrayal in Lifelike. Theatre credits include From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (Geordie Theatre), The Hockey Sweater: A Musical (NAC/Segal Centre), Crazy For You (Segal Centre), Jeanne La Pucelle (Place des Arts/Théâtre Capitole), Damn Those Wedding Bells (Segal Centre), Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (HVT), Elegies For Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Spectrum), and Bent (Salle Paul-Buissonneau). Some film and television credits include The Whole Nine Yards, The Great Gatsby, Stonewall, CBC’s Coroner and Ari Aster’s soon-to-be-released Disappointment Blvd. Richard can currently be seen on Illico and TVA’s Le temps des framboises.

For over 30 years, Stephen Lawson has continuously challenged the boundaries of theatre, music, television, radio, performance art, installation, print and video. He was a co-founder of the performance troupe PRIMUS (Winnipeg, 1989–1998) and his work as a director includes radical multi-disciplinary creations with artists such as Jess Dobkin (Toronto). Since 2001, and emerging from Montreal’s wildly eclectic cabaret scene, he has worked with his partner Aaron Pollard as part of the collaborative art duo 2boys.tv. Stephen has toured a wide repertoire of transdisciplinary artworks and performances to museums, galleries, theatres, clubs, cabarets, and festivals, including the Havana Biennial, el Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Triennale Québécoise at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Under the Radar Festival in New York City, the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland, and the Hemispheric Institute biennial Encuentros in Santiago, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Santiago.

Michael is a thirty-five-year veteran whose career spans the mediums of film, television, theatre and radio and couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of At the Beginning of Time. For the stage, Michael has performed in F-Lying Fellini (Soulpepper Theatre), Mambo Italiano (Sudbury Theatre), The Love List (Globus Theatre), Bhopal (Cahoots Theatre), On the Money (Toronto Fringe), and Queen of Savoia (Summerworks). Michael also originated the role of Paolo in Salvatore Antonio’s In Gabriel’s Kitchen, which received a Governor General’s Award nomination. Michael’s film and television credits include Mother of All Shows for Highball TV, Little Italy, Georgetown, Kodachrome, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, The Hot Zone: Anthrax, and Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 as the guerilla legend Lorenzo Canseco.

Nadia is so excited to be returning to the Centaur stage after appearing in Carmela’s Table in 2006. Selected theatre/musical credits include Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet, Billy (The Days of Howling), Belles Sœurs: The Musical, and Captain Aurora I & II. Selected film/TV/voice credits include Mirror Mirror, Target Number One, Being Human, The Disappearance, Mohawk Girls, Deus Ex, Far Cry, and Juno in the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Selected direction/choreography credits include Carrie the Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hair, Tommy, Once Upon a Mattress. As Artistic Director of In Your Face entertainment, Nadia has produced and appeared in Souvenir, The Wild Party, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.